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Aug 2023
4m 28s

Beervana gets underway in Wellington

RNZ
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New Zealand's premier beer festival, Beervana, gets underway today, despite the industry as a whole facing some particularly challenging times. Large increases in excise tax, ingredient costs and ongoing struggles with CO2 gas supplies has made things tough for breweries in recent months, and in the past few weeks, two Auckland-based craft breweries - E ... Show More
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